A BIT OF LIGHT Trailer (2024) Anna Paquin, Drama Movie

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A BIT OF LIGHT Trailer (2024) Anna Paquin, Drama Movie
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EXCLUSIVE: Quiver Distribution has acquired U.S. and Canadian rights to A Bit of Light, the second feature helmed by Stephen Moyer, on the heels of 2018 family drama The Parting Glass. Starring Moyer’s wife, True Blood co-star and Emmy and Oscar-winner Anna Paquin, as well as Ray Winstone (The Departed), the film is an adaptation by Rebecca Callard of her Bruntwood Prize-winning play of the same name. It’s slated for release in select theaters across the country, as well as on VOD and digital on April 5.

Check out a trailer above.

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A Bit of Light unfolds as an intimate story about a recovering alcoholic named Ella (Paquin). A series of tough breaks forces Ella to move back in with her father Alan (Winstone), while her daughters are under the care of her ex-husband Joseph (Youssef Kerkour) and his new partner Bethan (Pippa Bennett-Warner). Mired in guilt, the protagonist finds herself in fights with Joseph and Bethan about the kids and Alan over AA meetings. However, an unlikely friendship with Neil (newcomer Luca Hogan) opens her eyes to taking responsibility and making the changes she needs to make.

Moyer came to direct A Bit of Light following a longtime friendship with Callard, with whom he first worked as an actor over 25 years ago. “Her play ‘A Bit of Light’ moved me immeasurably,” he shared, “and I saw a wonderful opportunity for us to work together on creating this deeply personal film, with Anna.”

In a statement on the pic’s distribution deal, Quiver Distribution Co-Presidents Berry Meyerowitz and Jeff Sackman remarked that “Stephen Moyer has already proven himself as an assured and skilled director, but with the amazing and intimate performances captured in A Bit of Light, he has taken things to a new level.”

Phin Glynn and Axel Kuschevatzky produced for Infinity Hill, alongside Moyer and Paquin, with Isabelle Georgeaux producing through her production company Pont Neuf Productions. The project is an Infinity Hill and Pont Neuf Productions film, produced in association with Shorelight Pictures and Great Point Media. Exec producers include Anja Murmann and Sabine Schenk of Shorelight Pictures, Egor Noskov, Victor Glynn and Geoff Iles of GCB Films, and Callard, as well as Jim Reeve of Great Point and Cindy Teperman of Infinity Hill.

Judah Klatzker negotiated the deal for Quiver, with Ron Möring of Double Dutch International on behalf of the production.

Anna Paquin is battling an undisclosed illness that is hampering her mobility.

On Wednesday, the actress walked the red carpet using a cane for assistance. She was with her husband, actor-director Stephen Moyer, at the Crosby Street Hotel in New York City for their latest film, A Bit of Light.

“It hasn’t been easy,” Paquin told People of needing a cane to walk and experiencing some difficulties with her speech. The magazine cited a source who says the Oscar and Emmy-winning actress is hoping to make a full recovery.

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Despite the physical issues, Paquin is grateful to still be working.

“My first love was independent filmmaking,” said Paquin. “That’s how I entered the film industry. I was working with people who were all about telling stories and telling them with integrity and truth.”

Paquin was directed by husband Moyer in the indie drama, which is based on a stage play.

A Bit of Light stars Paquin as an alcoholic mother who loses custody of her children and has to pick up the pieces of her broken life while reconciling with her past.

She said as a mom she understood that parenthood can be complex, and that women can often be forgotten as fully formed people once they become mothers.

“Not everyone ends up having the journey with motherhood that they have hoped or had planned,” Paquin says. “We’re all flawed and imperfect, and Ella is kind of on some level repeating some sort of familial patterns as far as stuffing feelings down.”

She added, “It’s very relatable because there’s so many ways that people can get in their own way, or sort of learn to cope with trauma.”

A Bit of Light is in theaters Friday, April 5.